On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 06:28:46PM +0000, Mark Wasmer wrote: > Today i've read the Debian-Weekly-News March 29th, 2005 and got worried : > > Build-Dependency against libtool 1.4. Andrew Pollock noticed that five > packages still declare a build-dependency against libtool 1.4 which is > orphaned and will be removed. Frank Lichtenheld proposed to open bug > reports against packages that use libtool 1.4 files to upgrade to > version 1.5 which was considered a good idea. Henrique de Moraes > Holschuh also suggested to force the use of newer libtool, autoconf and > gettext utilities.
> FreeRADIUS depends on this package - can someone tell me what this means > to me in the future as i like to use FreeRADIUS on Debian Sarge ? There is already a bug report open against FreeRADIUS in Debian about libtool 1.4. The decision the release managers and myself came to was that forward-porting FreeRADIUS 1.0 to autoconf2.5/libtool1.5 was not feasable, and we do not want a non-released (CVS pull) FreeRADIUS in Debian/stable (ie. Sarge when its released). Post-sarge, I'm expecting FreeRADIUS 1.1 will be out, and we can get rid of libtool1.4. I didn't read the Debian Weekly News article, and unless this thread appeared on Debian-Devel in the last couple of days, it's not been discussed anywhere I'm party to. So it's a bit of a surprise to me. In short, I think this is an issue that was dealt with last year, and I full expect Sarge will include libtool1.4, as agreed previously. Of course, if FreeRADIUS 1.1 is out before Sarge ships, I will consider trying to get it into Sarge. But that is not to my mind very likely to occur. We'll burn that bridge when we come to it. -- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, on an alternate email client. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
